Major-General Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett, 13th Baronet, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar (1 April 1880 – 13 August 1953) was a British Army officer.

Born the son of Colonel Sir Thomas Burnett, 12th Baronet, and Mary Elizabeth Cumine[1] and educated at Wellington College,[2] Burnett was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders on 6 December 1899.

[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in March 1915[4] and subsequently commanded the 1st Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders and then a brigade during the First World War.

[6] He gave Crathes Castle, which had served as the ancestral seat of the Burnetts of Leys, to the National Trust for Scotland in 1951.

[7] In 1913, Burnett married Sybil Crozier Smith;[8] they had two sons and a daughter,[9] Rohays, who was the mother of the racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil.